Inside Breaking Bad composer Dave Porter's studio

Dave Porter, composer for AMC's multiple Emmy-wining drama "Breaking Bad," shows us the synths he used to create the show's unique score in this video tour. Read the full interview in our August 2014 issue.

Dave Porter, composer for AMC's multiple Emmy-wining drama "Breaking Bad," shows us the synths he used to create the show's unique score in this video tour. Read the full interview in our August 2014 issue.

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Dave Porter, composer for AMC's multiple Emmy-wining drama Breaking Bad, shows us the synths he used to create the show's unique score in this video tour with noted pro audio industry journalist Mr. Bonzai. Read the full interview in our August 2014 issue.

Unless you’ve been stranded in the desert with a broken-down RV for five years, it’s impossible to be unaware of "Breaking Bad." Stephen Fortner talks to Dave Porter, the composer behind the music for the Emmy-winning drama.

With the debut of his 400-plus page score to the 1925 silent film "Ben Hur," the legendary drummer of The Police reflects on how composing music for picture has broadened his musical horizons--and on how it can broaden yours.

Dave Smith's new Pro 2 is a hybrid synth: digital oscillators feeding analog filters. While the first-glance impression might understandably be "monophonic Prophet 12," it's in fact a rather different animal. Read the full review by Francis Preve in our October 2014 issue. Here, keyboardist Tom Brislin digs into it for the first time.

As a sideman, keyboardist, and vocalist, Dave Schulz has toured the world with artists stretching from Ryan Cabrera, Bo Diddley, and the Goo Goo Dolls to ’80s new wavers like the English Beat, General Public, and Berlin. But as a frontman and solo artist, Schulz has worked diligently on the west coast building a reputation as one of the shining talents on the scene. Among his other accomplishments, in 2005, the L.A. Music Awards nominated him for “Male Vocalist of the Year,” and Schulz has built a local following that feels almost like family to him. His latest solo pop album, Connect, features luminaries such as Daniel Lanois, Tony Levin, and Bernard Fowler, giving Schulz’s music gravitas to vault it beyond the local scene. Keyboard sat down with the talented Schulz to find out more about the man and his music.

When Marc Doty isn't acting as archivist and general outreach guru for the Bob Moog Foundation, he's making synth videos under the name "Automatic Gainsay." Having recently reviewed the Dave Smith Pro 2 in the November 2014 issue and posted our own video, we think his examination of the instrument's oscillator waveforms is a great supplement.